Carmen Mas Machuca

Carmen Mas Machuca is an Adjunct Teaching Professor at the Chair of Communication Networks at Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. She holds a Dipl.-Ing. from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (1996), a Dr.-Ing. from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (2000), and a Habilitation from TUM (2017). As an IEEE Senior member, her research focuses on converged optical access networks, network resilience, quantum communication systems, and techno-economic analysis.

• Affiliations: Chair of Communication Networks (Prof. Kellerer), TUM Munich
• Current Projects: BMBF OptiCON, DFG Software Dependability, AI-NET ANTILLAS, 6G Future Lab Bavaria

Her research emphasizes dependable virtualized networks and has contributed to projects like EU 5GPPP VirtuWind, HARMONICS, and OASE. She co-chairs major conferences (ICIN 2024, ONDM 2023) and serves as guest editor for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.

Key research areas include quantum key distribution networks, railway communication systems, and network sovereignty metrics. She advises PhD candidates on topics like optical access planning and network reliability, and leads labs such as the FlexComNetsLab.

Her work bridges theoretical network design with practical implementation, including tools like SDR-MDNet for multi-domain routing and PyRBD for reliability analysis.